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From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. A large fish representing the United States swims in the foreground. Fidel Castro, wearing swim trunks bearing the hammer and sickle symbol, is pinching the tail of the American...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. The numbers 1-9-7-5 are linked to each other and placed underground to form a convoluted tunnel. Lions labeled "Inflation" and "Unemployment" guard the entrance and exit. Five men...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoons Collection. Cartoon by Pierre "Peb" Bellocq. Leonid Brezhner sits at a desk in a funeral home. He is talking on a telephone and reading over a pamphlet titled "Our Mideast plan for eternal peace." Alexei Kosygin...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. An elephant labeled "Nixon doctrine" has encircled Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau with its trunk, and Trudeau has dropped the maple leaf he was holding. The elephant's...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. Richard Nixon is flying a kite in a strong wind. The kite's tail has ribbons labeled "NATO, NORAD, SEATO, Chiang." Nixon is looking over his shoulder and upward at the source of...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Pierre Bellocq. Harold Wilson holds a brief case labeled "Common Market" in one hand and his smoking pipe in the other hand. He is walking away from Charles de Gaulle and other Common Market...

From the Beauregard (Pierre Gustave Toutant) Papers. A response to Brigadier General John H. Winder in Richmond, Virginia, written by and at the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard from Charleston, South Carolina, headquarters of...

From the Beauregard (Pierre Gustave Toutant) Papers. Written by and at the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard from Charleston, South Carolina, headquarters of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida on 1 December...

Certificate of survey for a 130 acre tract of land in the Natchez District owned by John Burnet. The survey was conducted by William Vousdan on land 45 miles north of the Fort of Natchez lying along Bayou Pierre in what is now Claiborne County,...

Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...

Oral history.; Interview conducted April 19, 2002, in the McCarley home in Port Gibson, Mississippi. McCarley was born October 19, 1919 in Port Gibson. She discusses growing up, sharecropping and tenancy, her education at Port Gibson High School...

Oral history.; Interview conducted with Carl Boren at the Boren residence on May 29, 2001. Boren discusses his family history, folkways, and conditions growing up in Claiborne County, Mississippi. From a family of sharecroppers, he describes what...

Oral history.; Interview conducted February 16, 2001 in Claiborne County. Annie Jones Wade was born in Claiborne County on May 14, 1915 to Marcus D. Jones and Annie Wade. She attended school in Jefferson County. She married Charlie Wade on June...

Oral history.; Interview conducted May 27, 2002 at the Jones home in Port Gibson, Mississippi. Nathaniel Hawthorne Jones was born April 17, 1914, in Claiborne County to Alonzo Jones and Emma Harden Jones. When he was seven years old, his mother...

Oral history.; Interview conducted February 16, 2001 at the home of Anthony Gordon. Anthony Golrdon was born September 7, 1916 in Conway, Arkansas. He attended elementary school at Archers School and he attended Claiborne County Training School...

Oral history.; Interview conducted April 22, 2002 in Claiborne County, Mississippi. Jack Liggans was born July 15, 1921 in Claiborne County to George Liggans, Sr. and Bessie Butler. He was educated at Watson Chapel School and Claiborne County...

Oral history.; Interview conducted May 29, 2002 in James Gray's office. James Gray, Jr. was born on February 24, 1941, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The family moved to Port Gibson, Mississippi when Gray was three years old, and he has lived there...